Penguin Watch Talk

The Green Pea has landed - in Antarctica

  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    Hello All,

    I simply could not resist sending this to ZooGalaxy. They made a very famous discovery of previously unknown star forming galaxies through assessing their pictures of the universe. The items were called Green Peas after their shape and colour. The brightness of this capture of the sun, and it comes up distinctly pale green on my screen, put me in mind of the Green Peas. So I put a note on their Chat:

    Dear Zoo-Galaxians,

    It's strange how so many projects in the Zooniverse find cross matching events and interests. So I thought of you all when a Green Pea was sighted in Antarctica (we don't know its exact location, but this site is nicknamed 'Ice Age' by the Peng-zooites)

    https://talk.penguinwatch.org/#/subjects/APZ0009q3c

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    Pan-Galactically Yours,

    AvastMH

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye

    Can't be a galaxy, it is too small, even for a green pea galaxy. Do the aurora form balls, like ball lightning? Maybe this is the first recorded case.

    info on green pea galaxies

    **3.8 Green compact starburst,Peas ** http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=3&comment_id=53d8b93a0d43f77bb6000f98

    Small round galaxies with extreme rates of star formation. They have lots of large blue stars which live fast and die young, so there are always many supernova explosions, which have hot oxygen which then emits lots of visible light. In SDSS colour filters, these galaxies appear green, so they look like "green peas" . Closer galaxies appear as "blue peas".

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    The Green Pea Galaxies. https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000zvt

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  • AvastMH by AvastMH moderator

    Hello Budgieye, and thank you for joining in the joke 😄 Well I suppose it might be something as exciting as an Aurora ball (I worked on some of the U.S.S. Jeannette's log on OldWeather and in 18 months of being stuck in Arctic ice I don't think they saw that 😉 ). I think we have a common phenomenon for PW, sun glare in the lens. Sometimes it is so intense that the Penguin Deity appears:

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    Thanks for the pictures and talk board reference! I have long been a Zooite who is star struck by the finding of Green Peas. What an awesome event that was. And shows what a brilliant super computer is formed when interested minds come together. We are a deal more worldly on PW, but already we've supplied the details to form areas of Antarctic waters now protected from human fishing and to the benefit of our penguin friends. So if there is time for any aliens to develop on planets around those live fast die young stars, we'll be in better condition to meet them.

    LLAP!

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